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Bendigo Bank lifts cash profit

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has lifted its first half cash profit almost 10 % after lower funding costs helped improve its margins. The bank made a cash profit of $185.9 million for the six months, up from $169.7 million a year ago. But net profit fell ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street markets as investors shrugged off a report showing poor industrial output in January as mainly weather-related. At 0747 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
"There's a reason for the sunshinin' sky There's a reason why I'm feeling so high Must be the season when that love light shines all around us..." - Bellamy Brothers Quite fitting don't you think? Equity markets everywhere felt the 'love' on the week ...

MetLife Australia announces interim CEO

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
Damien Green, head of employee benefits in Asia, will take on the additional role of interim chief executive of the MetLifeA Australia. He will report to Nirmala Menon, head of designated markets and health, MetLife until a successor is found. Green ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on Wall Street which rallied after several companies reported higher earnings. At 0645 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 40 points at 5,303. Time Warner ...

Blame it on the boogie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
It's the weather, stupid! This was how Wall Street interpreted last disappointing data on retail spending and weekly jobless claims. 'Twas a convenient excuse (rationale?), particularly last night when a skyful of snow dropped on the East Coast about ...

Equip enlists Medibank for health insurance

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
Private health insurer Medibank has partnered with industry super fund Equip to provide health insurance packages aligned to the needs of Equip's members. In a media release Equip said the move is aimed at enabling "a more holistic conversation with ...

Confusing versus credible

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... after assured you, I and Irene that the US Federal Reserve which she now heads would follow the roadmap set by our old friend Ben. And heck, Yellen even added a sweetener. "Crossing one of these thresholds will not automatically prompt an increase in ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... billion), while imports were up 10.0 per cent at $US175.27 billion. Dr Yellen told Congress she expects to continue predecessor Ben Bernanke's plan to wind down the Fed's bond-buying gradually and keep interest rates low until the jobs market improves ...

PROFILE: Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
A career in the public and private sector has set the Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos in good stead for his challenge to change the financial services sector. Alice Uribe reports. By his own admission, politics was not always on the cards for Senator ...